Iberian & Latin-American Music

ILM


Introduction

Welcome to the Iberian & Latin-American Music discussion list (ILM). This list has been set up in response to the growing interest in this field. The aim is to create an electronic forum for discussion of topics related to any aspect of research into the music and musicians of Spain, Portugal and Latin-America. This could include new archival research, details of relevant conferences, publications, work in progress and queries of any kind.

At present there is no chronological limit, but if the topic proves to be too broad, it may be necessary to split the list into sublists. Although the official language is English, contributions in Spanish and Portuguese are also welcome.

Due to the increase in traffic in the electronic network, it would be appreciated if communications could be kept brief. The list also makes it possible to store files of any length, such as papers and sets of data, which can be retrieved by members. For any queries related to the list, please send a message to

ilm-request@mailbase.ac.uk

Replies to list messages are sent to all members of the list. If you consider that your reply will not be of general interest, please send it to the originator's personal e-mail address.

Addresses

There are two email addresses which you will need to remember in order to get the best of ILM and other lists at Mailbase. There are two kinds of messages related to the list.

1) Commands: this messages send instructions to the computers which administrate the list. They have to be sent to:

You can send commands to join or leave the list, provisionally suspend mail, retrieve previous messages or other files related to ILM, etc. For example, if you want do not want to receive any more messages from the list, just send the following command to the previous address:

If you want to suspend receiving mail for a period of time, you can send:

To resume, just send:

Other commands are detailed in the file user-card which are sent to you when you join the list.

2) List address: all messages intended to the list members have to be sent to the following address:

Please note that any message you sent to the list is stored, so be careful not to send your message to the incorrect address. Because your message will get to the email account of several docens of people, it is strongly recommended to doble check the contents and address before sending it.

Message Storage

All ILM messages are automatically stored in the Mailbase server and kept for about a year. You can retrieve all messages in several ways. If you have access to the WWW, you should access the web pages at:

If you do not have access to WWW but can access other servers via telnet, you can use the text-only web browser (lynx) in the Mailbase server if you connect to:

You can also retrieve previous messages via email, sending a message to the mailbase address (mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk) with the command:

If you want Furthermore, a parallel web site called ILM OnLine has been set up at

ILM is part of musicology-all, a superlist hosted by mailbase which embraces a number of mailing lists concerning music and musicology. details about these lists can be found at:

I hope you will find the list useful.